Project Manager

Job Description

Role

The Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing the full project lifecycle from initiation to close-out, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and alignment with client standards. This role involves cross-functional collaboration, risk and issue management, progress tracking, and stakeholder communication. The Project Manager also oversees resource planning, prepares detailed project plans and reports, and supports leadership with clear, data-driven updates to ensure successful project execution and alignment with strategic objectives.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor projects to ensure they are meeting standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
• Collaborate with all departments and units to manage and prioritize project delivery
• Ensure team members carry out their tasks efficiently while upholding the standards of the client
• Monitor projects and report status to management on a regular basis
• Create and maintain a risk register to manage potential risks
• Manage the timely resolution of issues, including the escalation of issues that are outside of the project team’s scope of responsibility for respective project
• Develop, maintain, and manage detailed project plans, action items and major milestones for all assigned projects
• Act as a single point of contact for project status
• Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and present solutions to SC management
• Perform additional duties commensurate with the current role, as and when requested by the Head of Communication Planning
• Manage overall implementation
• Track and monitor program progress
• Manage internal and external communication related to project status
• Ensure stakeholder alignment
• Manage on-going issue resolution
• Identify and manage risks
• Prepare Leadership presentations storyline, align with program leaders and program manager, collect respective slides from workstreams
• Check budget and track savings and expenses
• Keep track of resources schedule
• Prepare project plan at the start of a project.
• Provide detail on activities and key milestones planned by each initiative/ work stream
• Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on progress and key issues for reporting upwards
• Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on issues and risks and potential remedies
• Create a shared file repository functionality with access control and version control
• Keep track of resources’ time and pre-plan time off and vacations.
• Prepare project budget and track savings and spend on an ongoing basi
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration or Equivalent
• 5+ years of experience as a project manager in an agency.
• Prior Content writing experience
• PMP Certificate is a plus
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Excellent communication skills written and verbally
• Ability to multitask and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organization and time management skills, strong attention to detail
• Knowledge development skills
• Ability to be flexible, resilient, solution oriented and creative
• Service-orientated attitude, proactive thinker, information seeker
• Some travel may be required
• Must reside in Riyadh or be willing to relocate
• Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local regulations
  
  

Careers at APCO

Through our recruitment, hiring and retention efforts, APCO is committed to building teams to bring the best possible expertise and robust perspectives to our clients. We embrace differences in experience, viewpoint and ideas, starting with our values and extending to our behaviors, policies and practices. We aim to create a positive work experience and welcoming environment where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.